Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Understanding the Impact of Travel on Attendees. Even before its official launch in July, online travel agency (OTA) Kayak had thousands of companies signed up for its new Kayak for Business. The post A Year in Recovery: Best Pandemic Travel Tips, Takeaways of 2021 appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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One10 Marketing

MARCH 10, 2021

One10 Xperts weigh in on IRF’s 2021 Trends Report. The IRF 2021 Trends Report is out and we couldn’t be more thrilled! Here’s the One10 take on 2021 trends and what we’re doing to meet client needs in 2021 and beyond: IRF Trend: Increase in Individual Rewards. In our world, that moment is now.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

It seems that the asynchronous communication trend has also started making waves in the meeting and events industry , namely as asynchronous hybrid events. As discussed in our 2022 Event Trends Guide , hybrid events are not simply in-person and virtual events put together. A great asynchronous hybrid event case study is IBTM 2021.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Convene editors look back on an ever-changing 2021 and ask the question: What event trend is on my radar for 2022? I don’t think I’m alone in feeling bombarded by the onslaught of content coming at me every day, be it webinar invites, Substack newsletters, or updates from online communities I’ve joined. Less Is More.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In fact, we’ve seen it all, from overflowing budgets in 2019 and near-zero activity in 2020 to the rise of hybrid events in 2021, business-almost-as-usual in 2022, and inflationary pressures causing businesses to rethink their budgets in 2023. But you also need to guide your attendees to find those networking spaces more easily.”

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 15, 2022

In its report “The Future 100: 2022,” creative agency, consultancy, and technology company Wunderman Thompson has identified 100 trends across industries — from culture to health to travel and hospitality — that will shape the way we live and work this year and beyond. More Trends. Up next, Senior Editor Jennifer N. Jennifer N.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

“With a state-of-the-art convention center, an abundance of hotel rooms, ease of accessibility, award-winning dining and world-class entertainment, Orlando offers everything meeting planners need to create memorable experiences for their attendees,” she said. “We We invite meeting planners to build the agenda, and we’ll bring the excitement.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2022

One of the first big conventions to return anywhere in the world after the Covid pause was Informa Market’s World of Concrete show in June 2021 at the expanded Las Vegas Convention Center. in the still shiny space to learn about new equipment, techniques and trends from more than 1,100 vendors. The show took over 632,000 sq.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Straddling that millennial/Gen Z line with technology is probably why I feel so drawn to the trend “Luddite Mode,” highlighted in the recently published “The Future 100: 2024” report from VML Intelligence, the futurism, research, and innovation unit of global creative agency VML. Casey Gale is managing editor of Convene.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

This is great news for event marketers and planners who can plan experiential events – events that aim to evoke positive emotions in attendees and resonate with their values. After all, what makes an incredible event is not the stage and the logistics, but the atmosphere and the positive emotional state of the attendees.

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Cort

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Every event organizer wants to create an experience that attendees will enjoy during the event and remember when it’s over. For example, the 2021 colors of the year reflected the desire for stability and consistency after a pandemic year with much uncertainty. Check us out online or give us a call today.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 10, 2022

It’s all about bringing the event to more of your attendees, to those who are unable or unwilling to travel. If I wrote my event trends guide in like November, I would not have guessed that CES would not have happened this year, for example.” Your attendees are now playing a role in the story rather than just watching it.”

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Make sure that you’re up to date on this year’s Virtual Event Trends. Virtual concert series like these might be a common trend that we see more often, especially as artists delay, postpone, and reschedule their tours. CES 2021 Is Going Virtual! How It’s Done: Tomorrowland 2020: The Virtual Event of The Year?

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Sojern

JUNE 23, 2021

In February, we did a look back at 2020 and a look forward at 2021 data , using a combination of Sojern and PlaceIQ data to understand COVID-19 recovery and the bigger picture of the traveler through layering these insights together. January 6, 2019 – June 12, 2021 . January 5, 2021 – June 12, 2021 .

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For a preview, we asked Eric Holmen, CEO of Splash , the event marketing software company that powers tens of thousands of business events each month, for trends in how organizers are adjusting their programs. Spoiler alert, it could be smaller, more tech driven and hybrid , but not in the way many expected at the beginning of the year.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

Innovative virtual language interpretation software is making attendee accessibility a reality for everyone involved in creating inclusive meetings. The capabilities of Remote Simultaneous Interpretation ( RSI ) have reached new heights, elevating the events industry and the experiences it creates for attendees. KUDO Language Access.

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Endless Events

JUNE 29, 2020

Some of the primary upcoming concerns for event organizers will include re-organizing events with the limited timescale, adhering to strict safety guidelines to protect their guests and attendees, and discover solutions that potentially curb the spread of the virus. Will we adapt to a new way of marketing and communications?

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 11, 2021

The great online learning experiment caused by the pandemic left college students feeling positive about online and hybrid courses, a recent survey found. According to the study published in Inside Higher Ed, a majority of students want to have the option to continue studying online. We need to own it.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 9, 2021

Let’s discuss how you can write the perfect invitation email for your virtual event to drive more registrations in 2021. In fact, Small Business Trends , estimates that almost half, 47 percent of recipients, judge whether to open the email based on the subject line alone. Make it Easy for Attendees to Check-In/Out.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In many ways, 2021 felt like a series of false starts. This is up from 34 percent last year, and it echoes a wider sentiment in the industry about the value virtual provides by reducing barriers to entry and attracting a truly global pool of attendees.”. Marjorie Anderson.

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Endless Events

MAY 4, 2021

From choosing the right platform to delivering the best virtual content , we always first need to think about what kind of an experience we are providing for our virtual attendees. That way, we could provide engagement in their home and provide an immersive experience when they were watching the event online.”

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Of course, our event marketing budgets will need to be higher in 2023 than in 2021 or 2020. Alternatively, you can switch hotel catering for local restaurants, as suggested in our Event Trends Guide 2022. Audiences have grown accustomed to a better standard in live streaming and consuming event content online. in the last year.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The travel, tourism, and events industries have in recent years understood the importance of responding to the needs of neurodiverse travelers and attendees — and Convene has been at the forefront of reporting this movement. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in 36 children has autism, up from one in 44 in 2021.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You should watch our Virtual Event/Life Balance webinar to find out how to achieve attendee bliss! So much so that I purchased festival tickets to Outside Lands 2021 the day they came out. This online medium also allowed Another Planet to give away tickets to OSL 2021 to people who were attending virtually and active in the chat.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 5, 2021

[My June, 2021 guest post for BlueJeans by Verizon on event ROI.]. All events have owners , suppliers of services and products , and attendees. It seems likely that the mix will include: Fewer in-person; More online; and. More hybrid (in-person and online) meetings. Considerations for event supplies and attendees.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 21, 2021

Janet Stovall, senior client strategist at NeuroLeadership Institute, speaks remotely during PCMA EduCon 2021. “No Janet Stovall, senior client strategist at NeuroLeadership Institute, and PCMA EduCon 2021 Main Stage speaker, would say that lack of intent or focus is such a missed opportunity. According to 383 U.S.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 21, 2021

Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi opens the virtual Data + AI Summit North America 2021, showing its platform. Because of the diverse professions and number of online attendees, it was important to Seabloom to find new ways to connect them with the content and each other. Debbie Seabloom. “I

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But knowing attendees weren’t likely to interact with exhibitors on the same level as they would at a live show, ASA nudged exhibitors toward investing in alternatives, like sponsored online educational content and networking sessions. That’s what we tried to do in 2020 and to an extent in 2021, because we didn’t know where to stop.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 29, 2022

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is aiming to restore its pre-pandemic in-person participation at the same time it cultivates a larger online audience. Reed outlined the approach the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting, held Dec. Programs ran simultaneously for online and in-person audiences with livestreamed content. Data Driven.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The two-part CEMA webinar series, “Planning an Annual Conference in 2021, The Before & After,” reviewed what worked and what didn’t at Workiva’s Amplify virtual events. In that same spirit, I tuned in to the two-part CEMA webinar series , “Planning an Annual Conference in 2021, The Before & After.”

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In 2021, Darren Mendola and his team at the Alzheimer’s Association faced a challenge that many event organizers hoped they had left behind in 2020 — a COVID variant surge forced the organization to radically redesign its annual international conference set to take place in Amsterdam and move it to Denver in just 90 days. “We

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 7, 2022

Author Luuvie Ajayi Jones (left) and actor Gabrielle Union take part in one of the three MAKERS@Home virtual events in 2021. The MAKERS Conference launched in 2015 as a way to bring attendees who are making a difference in their own fields and communities into the conversation.

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The MICE Blog

JANUARY 7, 2021

To gain insights and understanding of the global trends that will shape the future of the events industry, Rotterdam Partners Convention Bureau has launched a new series of hybrid events called The Rotterdam Experiment. Connecting online and offline audiences during the #RotterdamExperiment. Introduction to VR technology for events.

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ITA Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Why not engage your event attendees using experiential marketing strategies that trigger the same kind of memories and emotions? It’s important to evaluate how you engage with your attendees and find out what inspires and moves them. Engage Event Attendees’ Senses Creatively & Uniquely. Interactivity.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 30, 2023

And her attendees were learning, too — many of them, she said, “aren’t very savvy when it comes to the computer.” In 2021, it returned in the virtual format, but with much more planning time behind it — AMDA partnered with event tech company Cadmium to provide a full digital experience for nearly 1,200 attendees.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

After finding success with its first-ever hybrid annual meeting in 2021 (above), The Aesthetic Society continues to use the format. The Aesthetic Meeting 2022 was held in San Diego and online April 20-24, and the team plans to keep it going in 2023, but with a few tweaks from the first iteration.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Held in late February 2020 in Orlando and attracting 17,000 attendees, Global Pet Expo “snuck right in” before the pandemic shut everything down, said Christopher Bonifati, CEM, director of attendee services at the American Pet Products Association (APPA), which co-produces the event. In-Person Application. In-Person Application.

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